Toshiba Satellite Click Mini review

Despite its tiny size, the tablet has a high-resolution 1,920×1,200 pixel screen. Although this is impressive and makes things look super sharp, application interfaces and icons are rather small. You’ll need to tinker with Windows 10’s display scaling options in order to get the best out of the display and to make things legible. Performance is about at what I’d expect from a budget laptop, with the panel able to cover 58% of the sRGB colour gamut, with a reasonable maximum 270cd/m2 brightness but a strong 1,007:1 contrast ratio and wide viewing angles.

The Satellite Click Mini is powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F processor clocked to 1.33GHz. It’s a quad-core chip that is very popular in netbook-style devices and hybrids, and it managed an overall score of 9 in our benchmarks. It’s not fast in a sprint, and it’s even slower in a marathon, but it’ll handle web browsing and simple applications with ease. Even better, if you fancy playing some simpler games, I  found both Minecraft Windows 10 Edition and Hearthstone ran smoothly enough to enjoy them both.

I’m at a bit of a loss as to why Toshiba thought it would be a good idea to fit speakers on the bottom of both the right and left edges of the device. Audio performance is fine for a tiny, thin, cheap tablet, but if you’re using the tablet like a normal person, your hands will cover and seal the speakers perfectly, completely muffling the sound. It’s a totally bizarre choice and means you have to cup the tablet or lean it on something in order to hear clearly. I would have preferred rear-facing speakers, and that’s saying something.

The Toshiba Satellite Click Mini is close to being a great device, but it’s let down by odd speaker design, below-average battery life, and a keyboard that may annoy some people. If you think these niggles won’t bother you, though, it’s a decent enough buy for under £190. For other options check out our regularly-updated Best budget laptops.